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Le corps d'un septuagénaire est resté pendant trois jours sur un balcon en Californie : les voisins n'avaient pas donné l'alerte, pensant qu'il s'agissait d'une décoration de Halloween, fête pendant laquelle les ornements macabres foisonnent aux Etats-Unis.

 

Le cadavre en décomposition de Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed était visible de tout le voisinage dans la ville côtière de Marina del Rey, a rapporté samedi le Los Angeles Times. Il était apparemment mort depuis lundi et ce n'est que jeudi soir que la police a récupéré la dépouille.

 

Des voisins ont affirmé à un journaliste de l'agence vidéo RMG News qu'ils avaient bien remarqué le corps lundi, mais qu'ils n'avaient "pas pris la peine d'appeler les forces de l'ordre parce que ça ressemblait à un mannequin de Halloween".

 

M. Zayed présentait une blessure par balle à la tempe et le bureau du shérif de Los Angeles a indiqué au L.A. Times pencher pour la thèse du suicide.

 

Fête populaire célébrée le 31 octobre, Halloween est l'occasion pour les Américains de décorer leurs maisons et leurs jardins de têtes grimaçantes sculptées dans des citrouilles, mais aussi de pierres tombales, de toiles d'araignée et de mannequins grimés en cadavres.

 

LOS ANGELES — The body of a man slumped over patio furniture on his balcony in Marina del Rey was mistaken for Halloween décor last week and remained undisturbed for five days.

 

Sheriff’s deputies were called to the complex Thursday evening and found the man, Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed, 75, dead. He had been shot through the eye.

 

“He looked fake,” said Austin Raishbrook, 33, who lives nearby. “It looked like somebody had thrown a dummy over the back of a chair.”

 

Sheriff’s deputies believe that Mr. Zayed committed suicide, said Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. “Our investigators don’t think there was any foul play here,” he said.

 

Mr. Raishbrook said he had just returned home from work at the news-gathering agency he owns when sirens began to wail along Bora Bora Way, a residential street overlooking boat slips and a main waterway.

 

“I ran over there with my camera equipment,” he said. “There was blood on the balcony, and he was visible from the street. But it really did not look like a real person up there.”

 

Mr. Zayed may have died last Sunday, according to the coroner, but a final report will be released after an autopsy on Saturday. Mr. Whitmore said neighbors “reported hearing popping noises on Sunday.”

 

Most people in the complex of 800 units may not have noticed Mr. Zayed, Mr. Whitmore said. Hard rain and cold winds kept many indoors for most of the week. The buildings in the complex are turned so that the third floor — where Mr. Zayed’s body was slouched toward a railing — is partly obscured from the street.

 

“I finally took a walk last night with my dog, and I saw the ambulance there,” said Victoria Sepe, 61, who lives nearby but did not see the body. “It’s terrible.”

 

The apartment complex sits on a narrow strip of land leading to the sea, said residents reached on the phone Friday. It is a quiet street, they said, with upscale apartment buildings.

 

The most pressing security matters are usually “seals jumping on the docks and making too much noise,” Ms. Sepe said.

 

“This is a little creepy,” she added.